Booted boardwalk businesses get asked back to Coney Island

A handful of the beloved, longtime Coney Island Boardwalk businesses expected to be shut down in favor of newer attractions at the end of the month got a surprise dose of new life. According to the New York Post, Ruby’s Bar and Grill and Paul’s Daughter are likely to be offered new leases by the same developer that gave them the boot.

Embarrassingly, Zamperla will have to ask some of the businesses back after the Miami Beach group dropped out of the Boardwalk agreement. The Post said the team renegged after an ice cream shop it opened this summer, Coney Cones, flopped.